THE DAYLESFORD FOUNDATION KEY PEOPLE

Daylesford Foundation is steered by a small group of people, all intent on achieving its aims. At the healm we have the trustees, who serve as the governing body of the Foundation. Advising the Trustees is the Grants Board, which has recently been created to advise on the allocation of grant funding. The officers manage the administration of meetings, grants and projects.

TRUSTEES

Carole BamfordFounder

Carole Bamford has a wide ranging business portfolio which includes natural wellbeing, farming, retail, restaurants and an independent clothing line. She puts sustainability, organic farming, responsibly-sourced food and holistic living at the forefront of all her business models.. Read more..

Alice BamfordTrustee

Alice has enjoyed an holistic, deep understanding of sustainable food since childhood. Daughter to Carole Bamford and growing up on the Daylesford Farm, it was un-avoidable. This has gone to another level in more recent years, where Alice founded One Gun Ranch; nestled where the mountains meet the ocean in the canyons of Malibu. One Gun Ranch grows and supplies the finest bio dynamic organic produce, created from rich, compost-improved soil. Enterprise is rife on the ranch; it holds tours for inner city children, lessons on how to grow food biodynamically and make gift planter boxes made of reclaimed wood filled with their home grown herbs.

Mark MusgraveTrustee

Mark has been a solicitor for 35 years. He was a partner of Speechly Bircham LLP for over 30 years and is a former managing partner; he is now a Consultant. Mark has many years of experience in acting for charities and was the solicitor to the Bhopal Hospital Trust which built a hospital to treat the victims of the Bhopal disaster in India. He is the current Honorary Treasurer and Trustee of the National Brain Appeal.

GRANTS BOARD

Carole BamfordChairman

Carole Bamford has a wide ranging business portfolio which includes natural wellbeing, farming, retail, restaurants and an independent clothing line. She puts sustainability, organic farming, responsibly-sourced food and holistic living at the forefront of all her business models.. Read more..

Alice BamfordTrustee and Member of Grants Board

Alice has enjoyed an holistic, deep understanding of sustainable food since childhood. Daughter to Carole Bamford and growing up on the Daylesford Farm, it was un-avoidable. This has gone to another level in more recent years, where Alice founded One Gun Ranch; nestled where the mountains meet the ocean in the canyons of Malibu. One Gun Ranch grows and supplies the finest bio dynamic organic produce, created from rich, compost-improved soil. Enterprise is rife on the ranch; it holds tours for inner city children, lessons on how to grow food biodynamically and make gift planter boxes made of reclaimed wood filled with their home grown herbs.

Tim FieldTrustee and Member of the Grants Board

From an early age, if it looked remotely edible Tim would try and eat it. Coupled with an unerring fascination for creepy crawlies, frogs, birds, and any farm animal and he was destined for a life in food and farming. During an Environmental & Behavioural Biology degree at the University of St Andrews he studied the complex interactions between humans and nature, which lead to a career as an Environmental Consultant. Read more..

Rose PrinceMember of Grants Board

Author, cook and journalist, Rose has educated many of us on the delights of good food, grown and produced properly, via her many newspaper columns and inspirational books. Rose regularly writes about sustainable food on a modest budget; practical solutions that we want to see adopted country-wide.

Ewan VentersMember of Grants Board

As CEO of Fortnum & Mason, Ewan will lend a commercially savvy perspective to the Board. His own entrepreneurial force and love of food was born in Fife, where at the age of 11 he was already selling buns and cakes. Sustainable food has to sell, so we are excited by Ewan’s influence on the board to identify those projects that have both impact but also an economically viable future. Read more

OFFICERS

Tim FieldGrants Programme Director

From an early age, if it looked remotely edible Tim would try and eat it. Coupled with an unerring fascination for creepy crawlies, frogs, birds, and any farm animal and he was destined for a life in food and farming. During an Environmental & Behavioural Biology degree at the University of St Andrews he studied the complex interactions between humans and nature, which lead to a career as an Environmental Consultant. Read more..

James Stuart Daylesford Foundation Secretary

James Stuart has been instrumental in the smooth running of Daylesford Foundation since the early days. Managing the Foundation’s grant giving process, he has been a guiding light for applicants; resounding the ethics and principles of the trustees and handling applications with great efficiency. The prospects of good, sustainable, food with an emphasis on philanthropy attracted James to join the Bamford family in 2008.